Новости за 04.10.2021

IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have agreed to return to the bargaining table on Tuesday following the union’s historic strike-authorization vote. It will be the first time in more than two months that the two sides have engaged in collective bargaining. “I hope that the studios will see and understand […]

When it comes to WarnerMedia’s theatrical-day-date HBO Max fare, we’ve often written that whatever pales at the cinemas also sours on the service. That was not the case this weekend with the The Sopranos prequel feature The Many Saints of Newark.  Even though The Many Saints of Newark wasn’t so hot at the box office with a $5M opening, the […]

Drunken Birds, the migrant drama from Serbian Canadian director Ivan Grbovic that had its world premiere in the Platform section at last month’s Toronto Film Festival, has been selected by Canada as the country’s entry into the 2022 International Feature Oscar race. Written by Grbovic and Sara Mishara, the film (Les oiseaux ivres in French) […]

Amanda Bearse (Married…with Children) has found one of the first roles of a newly rebooted screen career in Universal Pictures’ history-making rom-com Bros—the first studio film to feature an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, with queer actors taking on queer roles, as well as all heterosexual characters. She joins an all-star ensemble led by Billy Eichner and Luke […]

Good Morning America Weekend executive producer Quiana Burns will be joining Tamron Hall as interim executive producer of the syndicated daytime talk show, which recently launched its third season. She is replacing Candi Carter who stepped down last week. Carter’s departure follows Tamron Hall‘s recent move from ABC Entertainment to ABC News where it is […]

UPDATE, 1:04 PM: Tom Brady has rarely been second place at anything, but the seven-time Super Bowl champ and NFL passing yardage record holder may be cool with this one. The QB’s much promoted return to play his old comrades in the New England Patriot last night on Sunday Night Football is now the second-most […]

Elena Nachmanoff, who has overseen talent recruitment at NBC News, plans to depart the network at the end of the year. Nachmanoff, who has been with the network for 31 years, said in a memo to staff that she has decided to “pursue external opportunities.” NBC News president Noah Oppenheim said that she’ll be succeeded […]

EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios is terminating most of its key executives, a move that was announced to staff Monday morning. Deadline hears that among those who are out are founding CEO Mark Gill, production president Lisa Ellzey, founding marketing chief Vincent Bruzzese, distribution head Shari Hardison and international sales topper Crystal Bourbeau. This follows a round […]

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has set Keira Knightley to star in Boston Strangler, a drama written and to be directed by Matt Ruskin, best known for Crown Heights. Ridley Scott and Kevin Walsh of Scott Free will produce alongside Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara of LuckyChap Entertainment. Pic begins shooting in December in Boston. Based […]

Stephanie Grisham, former White House press secretary under Donald Trump and chief of staff to then First Lady Melania Trump, began her book tour on Monday with an appearance on Good Morning America, and host George Stephanopoulos started off with the “inevitable first question, what took you so long?” Grisham resigned on January 6, the […]

Thoughts of a Colored Man, the new Broadway play by Keenan Scott II and directed by Steve Broadnax III, is moving up its official Broadway opening by more than two weeks, with the new opening date now on Wednesday, October 13. The play at Broadway’s Golden Theatre had previously been set to open Oct. 31. […]

Damian Lewis is speaking out for the first time after ending his five-season run as Bobby Axelrod on Showtime’s Billions. Lewis took to Twitter this morning following Sunday night’s Season 5 finale, to thank the show’s co-creators, cast and crew. “Thank you @SHO_Billions thank you @briankoppelman @DavidLevien. A pleasure and a privilege to play Axe […]

Tilda Swinton, George Mackay and Stephen Graham are set to star in Oscar-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, a Golden Age musical about the last human family for Neon. The Parasite Oscar Best Picture-winning studio has taken North American rights to the film. Production will start next year. Final Cut for Real’s Signe Byrge Sørensen and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Joel Fry (Cruella, Game of Thrones) has signed up for horror feature The Queen Mary and will star alongside Alice Eve (Belgravia). Gary Shore (Dracula Untold) is directing the pic, which is a psychological horror/mystery exploring three interwoven stories, covering the violent disintegration of two families onboard the ship in 1938 and present day. […]

Howard University and Netflix have announced a $5.4 million endowed scholarship to honor actor, director, writer and producer, alumnus Chadwick A. Boseman. The Chadwick A. Boseman Memorial Scholarship will provide incoming students in the College of Fine Arts with a four-year scholarship to cover the full cost of university tuition. Back in September, Howard officially […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Lohan is to get behind the microphone with her own podcast. The actress is launching the untitled audio series with Red Arrow Studios’ Studio71 with tentative plans to launch later this year or early next year. Lohan is set to “share her authentic voice” and listeners will get “a chance to experience a […]

Hulu has handed a straight-to-series order to Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel. The streamer has given the limited series project a nine-episode order with Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds adapting for 20th Television. The project, which is also exec produced by This Is Us star Brown, has been […]

EXCLUSIVE: Independent streaming company Cinedigm has taken all North American rights on Our Father, the feature debut of director-writer-actor Bradley Grant Smith that debuted at SXSW earlier this year. The deal marks the first Cinedigm acquisition slated to be released as an exclusive on the company’s independent streaming service Fandor. The film finds estranged sisters […]

Following last year’s cancelation and this year’s postponements, the annual CineEurope convention kicks off today in Barcelona. And what better time for studios and overseas exhibition to come together and celebrate the theatrical experience as we come off of a banner international box office weekend led by MGM/Eon/Universal’s lively launch of No Time To Die. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Poldark star Aidan Turner is to play a doctor with a dark side in a new drama for ITV from Bodyguard and The Pembrokeshire Murders producer World Productions. The British broadcaster has ordered a small-screen adaptation of Michael Robotham’s novel The Suspect. The five-part series will also star Shaun Parkes (Small Axe), Sian Clifford […]

The 2022 British Academy Television Awards will take place on May 8, with the British Academy Television Craft Awards following on April 24. Nominations will be announced on Wednesday March 30. Following the org’s annual review of its categories, BAFTA has opted to make the following changes to eligibility and voting this year: From 2022, […]

In his usual form, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver wasted no time in catching up with Twitter’s latest laughing stock. This time, it was Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal. Last week, a video clip of Blumenthal in a Senate hearing concerning Facebook and Instagram’s effects on teenagers’ mental health went viral showing the senior senator […]

Joel McHale will get his time to shine on DC’s Stargirl now that The CW has promoted the actor to series regular for the third season. On last Friday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, McHale confirmed his promotion to guest host Arsenio Hall. Expressing his gratitude, McHale said, “I’m very happy to be a […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the Billions Season 5 finale that debuted on streaming early this morning and on Showtime tonight Damian Lewis has exited Showtime’s Billions. With his very rich Bobby Axelrod on the run in Switzerland from the legal claws of Paul Giamatti’s Empire State Attorney General, Emmy winner Lewis ended […]

Gallows humor – and after the last 18 months, can there be any other kind? – is in exuberant form at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where the terrific new musical Six just had its long-in-coming opening night. Originally set to open on March 12, 2020 – Covid had other plans – Six and its sextet […]